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I explained it poorly I think.

I meant to say the bonus is a poor motivation for anyone. You can get 5 bonuses a year for no effort by asking for a higher salary or good tax planning!

So for many you burn social capital by trying to recruit to your company. It only is worth it if you think your company is good and the job would be such a good match for John that he should leave his job and vesting etc.

The exception to this is bringing across people you like to worth with.

I am sure that this happens and can be good. I have not seen it happen at IC or Manager level (although heard of it talking ti someone at a meetup).

I have seen VC level do it so 2 levels above manager bringing their mates across. I have seen this usually lead to a bad outcome for existing staff and the business.

Thanks. There has to be a better way. At risk of sounding cliche an LLM could probably do a better job. If yiu ask if the person probably knows SQL and they talk about setting up a postgres cluster... a natutal language model might score them as very likely and you keep em in. Maybe that wasnt available at the time.

Otherwise screen with a 5 to 10 minute quiz. Which also would probably encur the wrath of a HN snark from someone else but I accept these sorts of thing as a necessary evil and fair modulo creating more work for busy people.

It is a game where I need to psychicly guess what keywords to put in.

Hopefully it is the ones on the job ad.

I am not suggesting lying.... this is about 100-1000 technologies buzzword lists based on wide experience.

I have used MySQL, InnoDB, MyIsam, Full Text Search, Foreign Keys, MySQL Flexible Instances on Azure, ...

It depends. Where I have worked interns have done real work like a grad. I also interned. I didnt even know the word intern! To me it was a summer job where I wrote code.

The main difference intern vs grad is tbey know you'll leave soon for uni so it tends to be not too deep. The project will be something quick go get started on and probably not the main gnarly monorepo.

But yeah internship can also mean making tea... metaphorically.

Fuck so I need to put SQL in my CV? Do I also need to say "can eat with cutlery"? You probably filter out people who explain their impact in the CV rather than keyword soup.

We need something like driving tests for this basic stuff. Do it every 10 yrs. Standard vocational qualifications that all companies accept. Likena forklift.

The staff professional network thing is limited in scale. I love my job but am I going to burn goodwill spamming people to apply and then there are 50-1 odds per person I contact applying and maybe 1000-1 that they will get offered and accept a job. So I annoy 1000 people (most I barely know) to get $5k bonus. Or I just don't bother.

Exception: high up moves to a company and brings a bunch of henchmen along. But this has its own issues around bias/fairness. Have you been trojaned?

Internships while you study. Freelancing.

I think the grads cant get hired is overstated.

Beancounters can't resist a the lower $ per neuron of hiring grads.

Non-free to send an application signals scam. I would never use this.

Overemployment, moonlighting etc. is another interesting aspect and the heady mix of remote work, inflationary pressure, job insecurity and stagnating wages creates a motivator to take 2 or more jobs.